Community Resources


Neighborhood Empowerment Network (NEN)
Powered by a strategic partnership of City Agencies, local non profits and committed community leaders, the NEN is a collaborative platform that serves as a central engagement point for communities to find and share information that will empower them to make their neighborhoods a better place to live.

Castro Community On Patrol (CCOP)
CCOP is a grassroots program dedicated to promoting safety and safety awareness in the Castro and Duboce Triangle neighborhoods. CCOP volunteers patrol the neighborhood and create a visible safety presence.

Union Square Business Improvement District (BID)
The Union Square Business Improvement District (BID) is a 10-block area where property owners assess themselves to make their district cleaner, safer and more vibrant. The assessment is used by the BID to purchase services that supplement those provided by the city. The Union Square BID is leading a new spirit of cooperation amoung property owners, businesses and the community by providing a range of enhanced management programs including safety and maintenance.

Fisherman's Wharf Community Benefit District (CBD)
The purpose of the Fisherman’s Wharf Community Benefit District is to preserve and enhance its vast San Francisco waterfront landscape and multi-cultural heritage, while integrating modern efficiencies to enrich the experience of visitors from both near and far.

Community Boards of San Francisco
They organize and assist in establishing neighborhood based community boards for conflict mediation and resolution citywide.

Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center works to preserve and enhance the ethnic, cultural, and economic diversity of Bernal Heights and surrounding neighborhoods.

Mo MAGIC
Mo' MAGIC is a collaborative San Francisco neighborhood-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance the educational and social development, economic and vocational activities, community health, juvenile justice and re-entry programs of under-served youth and families in the San Francisco Bay Area.

B MAGIC
Bayview MAGIC is a neighborhood-based process for mobilizing community leaders, social service providers, church communities, schools, juvenile justice agencies and families in Bayview Hunters Point.

Community United Against Violence
CUAV prevents and responds to violence against and within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning communities.

OMI-Neighbors in Action
This group of all volunteers in the Ocean-Merced-Ingleside neighborhood of San Francisco is a big advocate of crime prevention and public safety issues. They also assist in block club organizing and teach safety in neighborhood parks.

Senior Action Network
Members of this active seniors group work with existing coalitions on senior safety & crime prevention issues in San Francisco as well as senior housing and medical insurance issues.

Janet Gee's Martial Art's Training
Janet Gee is an adjunct faculty member at City College of San Francisco and San Francisco State University who teaches self defense classes. Please visit her site for contact information and to find out the Self Defense seminars she teaches.

Triangle Martial Arts Association (TMAA)
TMAA presently focuses on encouraging the participation of all LGBTQQI, senior, and disabled individuals in several full-time instruction programs as well as self-contained seminars and outreach efforts.